Introductory: Martin Luther King Jr. was a civil rights activist and a Baptist preacher. MLK believed heavily in gaining rights through non-violence and civil disobedience. He believed that it was essential that African-americans and caucasin-americans would one co-exist peacefully. Before 1968, MLK had been working with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to protest for equal rights. They were rather successful in desegregating the south. Martin Luther King Jr. died April 4th 1968. During 1968 Poor People’s Campaign MLK was working on the “Poor People’s Campaign”. Desegregating the South hadn’t been enough; there were still huge economic barriers. People of other ethnicities were still 100 years behind and didn’t have the means to catch up. MLK wanted the government to step in and help, but the involvement of the government became very controversial with many Americans who didn’t want their taxes raised (still relevant today!). MLK vs. Black Panther Party/Malcolm X MLK didn’t believe in resorting to violence but many African-Americans were getting tried/frustrated/angry with the inherent racism and poor treatment and inequality. Groups like the Black Panther Party believed that they should campaign with only African-Americans and “fight back”. Malcolm X thought MLK was an “uncle Tom” (a rather horrible way of telling an African-American that they are submissive to white people) and didn’t agree with his idea of cooperating with white people, because that only reinforced an image of black people as being ‘weak’. The Vietnam War MLK was against the war, because of the majority of the soldiers fighting were African-American – very racist! VIEWS ON EQUALITY: ·MLK did want all men/women/black/white/ethnicities to be equal but saw the huge disadvantages that were placed on people of other ethnicities – who were 100 years behind economically, and still had to suffer from racism and prejudice in jobs and academics—he felt it was the govt.’s job to help all the people living in extreme poverty who needed healthcare, jobs, and housing
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Introductory:
Martin Luther King Jr. was a civil rights activist and a Baptist preacher. MLK believed heavily in gaining rights through non-violence and civil disobedience. He believed that it was essential that African-americans and caucasin-americans would one co-exist peacefully.
Before 1968, MLK had been working with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to protest for equal rights. They were rather successful in desegregating the south.
Martin Luther King Jr. died April 4th 1968.
During 1968
Poor People’s Campaign
MLK was working on the “Poor People’s Campaign”. Desegregating the South hadn’t been enough; there were still huge economic barriers. People of other ethnicities were still 100 years behind and didn’t have the means to catch up. MLK wanted the government to step in and help, but the involvement of the government became very controversial with many Americans who didn’t want their taxes raised (still relevant today!).
MLK vs. Black Panther Party/Malcolm X
MLK didn’t believe in resorting to violence but many African-Americans were getting tried/frustrated/angry with the inherent racism and poor treatment and inequality. Groups like the Black Panther Party believed that they should campaign with only African-Americans and “fight back”.
Malcolm X thought MLK was an “uncle Tom” (a rather horrible way of telling an African-American that they are submissive to white people) and didn’t agree with his idea of cooperating with white people, because that only reinforced an image of black people as being ‘weak’.
The Vietnam War
MLK was against the war, because of the majority of the soldiers fighting were African-American – very racist!
VIEWS ON EQUALITY:
· MLK did want all men/women/black/white/ethnicities to be equal but saw the huge disadvantages that were placed on people of other ethnicities – who were 100 years behind economically, and still had to suffer from racism and prejudice in jobs and academics—he felt it was the govt.’s job to help all the people living in extreme poverty who needed healthcare, jobs, and housing